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sick affected with disease or ill health ailing The first known use: before the 12th century |
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4 Letters, 1 Syllable |
sick |
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3 Phonemes |
s i k |
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onset, rime |
s ick |
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Morpheme |
sick |
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Sentence Examples He is at home sick in bed. She is sick with the flu. I'm too sick to go to work. The medicine just made me sicker. The sickest patients are in intensive care. My poor rosebush looks sick. She has been on the sick list all week. The way they treat people makes me sick. |
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Related Words Sound the same but are spelled differently.
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Collocations The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.
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Neighborhood
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